Speaker race needs to be conducted with nobility
Deputy Speaker Anitah Among has spoken for the first time after receiving encouraging news about her bit to replace fallen speaker Jacob Oulanyah.
Oulanyah’s death was confirmed by President Yoweri Museveni this week. The fallen speaker died in Seattle in the US where he had been flown for treatment.
NRM party Central Executive Committee CEC Wednesday endorsed Anitah Among the solitary party candidate for the vacant position of the Speaker.
Thirteen candidates showed interest for the position in the speaker race. They included; Dr @JaneRuth_Aceng, @HamsonObua, Dr Florence Akiiki Asiimwe, John Amos Okot and Wakabi Pius, Felix Okot Ogong, @HonOpendi, Jackson Kafuuzi, Atima-lee Jackson and Theodore Ssekikubo.
Anitah Among Wednesday evening broker silence to ask for the Speaker race process to be carried out with ‘nobility’.
The deputy speaker stated: “It is my earnest prayer that we conclude this process (speaker race) with nobility and decorum as a befitting tribute to our beloved departed leader, the Rt. Hon. Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah.”
She added: “May the Almighty God grant us the courage and fortitude to overcome this trying moment in the history of our Parliament For God and my Country.

Speaker race

Article 82(4) provides that subject to Clause (4) of Article 81 of this Constitution, “no business shall be transacted in Parliament other than an election to the office of Speaker at any time that office is vacant”.

Clause 4 of Article 81 relates to incoming lawmakers taking oaths of office, and of members of Parliament, in order to be eligible to vote, and be voted, as Speaker.

Who is Anitah Among?

Anita Among is a Ugandan accountant, lawyer and politician who serves as the Deputy Speaker of the 11th Parliament of Uganda.

She also concurrently serves as the elected member of parliament for the Bukedea District Women Constituency, the same position she held in the 10th parliament.